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Investigators stated in a press release the 39-year-old former police chief posed as a woman to solicit nude photos from a 17-year-old. According to court documents, Meissner used a false MySpace page to ask for nude pictures of teen males. Some who sent pictures are barely legal and were stated to have multiple criminal incidents on their records.
These investigators said they believe Meissner used his position as police chief during his stay in Little River-Academy to find potential victims and has obtained nude photographs from people around Texas. He also held police chief jobs in Ellis and Henderson counties.
Meissner is charged with the following felony offenses:
Engaging in organized criminal activity, a second degree felony and furtherance of obstruction and retaliation, a third degree felony.
Misuse of official information, a third degree felony.
Sexual performance by child, a second degree felony.
Engaging in organized crime, a second degree felony.
Attempted possession or promotion of child pornography, a third degree felony.
Aggravated promotion of prostitution, a third degree felony.

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A former Hawley police chief has been arrested on child pornography charges in Dallas-Fort Worth.
Michael Meissner, 39, was arrested Monday on six felony warrants from Dallas and Tarrant counties.
Meissner was charged with attempted possession of child pornography, aggravated promotion of prostitution, engaging in organized crime and sexual performance by a child in Tarrant County. He was also charged with obstruction or retaliation and misuse of official information in Dallas County. Meissner is in custody on bonds totaling $1.5 million.
Meissner was the Hawley police chief for about five weeks — from the last week of August 2008 until September 2008, said Mayor Ronnie Woodard of Hawley. Meissner and the City Council came to a mutual agreement and he agreed to step down.
“He just wasn’t fitting in,” Woodard said.

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… The brouhaha between Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins and Dallas County Commissioners — especially Commissioner John Wiley Price — shows no signs of abating. Commissioners say that the Dallas County Jail is critically close to its capacity and they blame it on Watkins who they say has changed procedures in his office to intentionally swell the jail population. Watkins, who had a months-long verbal battle with commissioners over his budget until an agreement was reached last week, denies the allegations.
• A former small-town police chief with a checkered work history and past is in the Dallas County Jail, accused of a variety of charges including engaging in organized criminal activity and possession of child pornography. Michael Meissner, 39, is being held on $1.5 million bail on charges of Engaging in Organized Criminal Activity,Obstruction or Retaliation, and Misuse of Official Information, Engaging in Organized Criminal Activity, Sexual Performance by Child, Aggravated Promotion of Prostitution, and Criminal Attempt to Possess or Promote Child Pornography.

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Mayor Ronnie White hired Meissner in spite of a past that included 18 law enforcement jobs in 14 years and intense scrutiny at his last few jobs. At the time of Meissner’s hire, White said he would give Meissner a chance to prove his detractors wrong.
White said Tuesday he had misgivings after Meissner resigned in August and felt like Meissner should be investigated. He said he recently called a friend in law enforcement and relayed his concern.
It is unclear if a phone call from White aided in the investigation.
“I just feel so relieved he won’t be a cop because he didn’t really have any business being one,” White said.
Meissner is charged out of Dallas County with engaging in organized criminal activity, obstruction or retaliation and misuse of official information. In Tarrant County, he faces charges of sexual performance by a child, engaging in organized crime, attempted possession or promotion of child pornography, and promotion of prostitution.

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Former Texas police chief arrested
09/16/2009
Associated Press
A former Texas police chief is behind bars charged with seven felony counts, including possession or promotion of child pornography, promotion of prostitution and engaging in organized crime.
Michael Meissner was arrested Monday in Arlington and is being held at the Dallas County Jail under a $1.5 million bail. Attempts by The Associated Press Tuesday to reach the jail to determine if he has an attorney were not immediately successful.
Meissner is accused of committing the crimes in Dallas and Tarrant counties.
He had been police chief in Little River-Academy, located about 150 miles south of Dallas, earlier this year. Little River-Academy Mayor Ronnie White said both parties ended the job by mutual agreement.
Meissner has reportedly held more than 10 law enforcement jobs in the last 18 years.

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A former Central Texas police officer has been arrested on suspicion of seven felony counts, including child pornography and prostitution charges.
Michael Meissner, who has reportedly worked for 17 police agencies in the last 18 years, was arrested Monday in Arlington.
Combine police said they began investigating Meissner after he allegedly began making threatening telephone calls about Detective J. Hoskins to the police department and city officials in April.
Hoskins, who previously worked with Meissner, had accused the other man of being a “gypsy cop” who jumped from department to department. He and other officers even launched a Web site about their complaints about Meissner.
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Meissner has also been charged with aggravated promotion of prostitution, sexual performance by a child, criminal possession of child pornography and engaging in organized criminal activity in Tarrant County.

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A new report from a consumer health group says that family health-care premiums rose about 4 1/2 times faster than earnings for Texas workers from 2000 through 2009.
The Washington-based nonprofit group Families USA reports Tuesday that in that period, family health insurance premiums rose by about 92 percent while median earnings rose by about 20 percent.
The nonpartisan group says the average annual health insurance premium in the 2000-2009 period for family health coverage provided in the workplace rose from about $6,600 to about $12,700. At the same time, the Texas workers’ median earnings rose from about $23,000 to about $27,600.
Former Texas police officer arrested
A former Texas police officer is behind bars charged with seven felony counts, including possession or promotion of child pornography, promotion of prostitution and engaging in organized crime.

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ARLINGTON, Texas — A former Texas police officer is behind bars charged with seven felony counts, including possession or promotion of child pornography, promotion of prostitution and engaging in organized crime.
Michael Meissner was arrested Monday in Arlington and is being held at the Dallas County Jail under a $1.5 million bail. Attempts by The Associated Press Tuesday to reach the jail to determine if he has an attorney were not immediately successful.
Meissner is accused of committing the crimes in Dallas and Tarrant counties.
He has reportedly held more than 10 law enforcement jobs in the last 18 years.

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Ex Cop Faces Porn, Prostitution Charges
Published : Tuesday, 15 Sep 2009, 7:48 AM EDT
DALLAS – A former police chief was jailed early Tuesday for charges ranging from child pornography to prostitution to organized criminal activity.
Michael Meissner has reportedly held 18 law enforcement jobs in the last 14 years, the most recent being the police chief of Little River Academy near Killeen.
He now faces seven charges out of Dallas and Tarrant counties, including allegedly running a porn and prostitution ring out of an Arlington home, trying to lure a minor to his operation by posing as a minor, and attempting to get a child to film a pornographic video.
Meissner has been the focus of two criminal investigations over the last month.
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It was during that investigation that detectives say they developed leads on the porn- and prostitution-related charges.

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Monday highlights and the day ahead
U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison did not take part Monday in an overwhelming Senate vote to withhold federal funding from ACORN, the increasingly controversial community organization. On Monday evening, she attended a fundraiser at the Dallas-area home of former Dallas Cowboy Roger Staubach.
The Senate voted 83-7 to deny funding and community grants to ACORN, which stands for Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. The organization has faced a series of setbacks over the last year, including the recent circulation of videos in which some of its employees gave tax-avoidance advice to conservative activists posing as pimps and prostitutes. The organization is also the subject of voter-fraud investigations.

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